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Justin Anderson

Travis Cale

Lauren Mahon

Cassidy Pendley

William Rhea

Allison Walden

Emily Yelton
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Ocean Isle Memorial: ‘Everybody will see it,’ and remember

Mourners come to Ocean Isle Beach to see memorial to 7 students killed in fire

OCEAN ISLE BEACH — Genie Lee looks across the only street leading into this North Carolina town of about 500 people to see an aluminum cross on a stone bearing her son’s name.

  • Deadly Ocean Isle beach fire: 'Friends together forever'


    The grievous path away from a charred Ocean Isle Beach house has not been easy for those who lost loved ones in the deadly, swift-moving blaze or for those who miraculously escaped the flames.- 9:49 PM

  • Fond memories survive flames

    Over the past week, details have emerged about how 13 college students from South Carolina came together last weekend in a quiet beach town just across the North Carolina border.- 10:39 AM

  • Justin’s legacy: Photos, memories and love


    Dawn Anderson leafed through a mountain of photos on her kitchen counter, looking for one with her 19-year-old son Justin’s characteristic baseball cap turned backward over his shaggy blond hair.- 10:45 AM

  • Fun-loving Cale liked to get the last word with friends


    Travis Cale’s bonds of friendship began in his Greenville neighborhood, sustained him through school and died with him in a North Carolina beach town.- 10:45 AM

  • Outgoing Mahon was known for her way with words


    USC freshman Lauren Mahon was a vivacious Delta Delta Delta pledge who made friends easily and liked to shop for MAC cosmetics. She also was a standout student, getting more than 1350 on her SAT last year.- 10:45 AM

  • ‘You couldn’t help but love him’


    The saying “they were like brothers” wasn’t quite enough to describe the relationship William and Andrew Rhea shared.- 1:05 PM

  • Walden always had a sunny outlook on life


    She could wear tie-dyed T-shirts one day and pearls the next. Jam to Janis Joplin and Dave Matthews or Britney Spears and rap. Fall right in with a crowd of new friends in the sunny South or return to brighten the lives of her northern compatriots in wintry Ohio.- 10:45 AM

  • Yelton was cherished part of close-knit family and friends


    Emily Yelton taught Justin Anderson’s younger brother Matthew to swim, said Justin’s older brother Stephen. It was just one of many signs of the bonds between the Anderson and Yelton families in Greenville’s Spaulding Farms neighborhood.- 10:45 AM

  • A scholar, an athlete, a beauty


    In the student parking lot of Fort Dorchester High School on Friday, white-lettered words covered windshields of several cars. “Rest in peace.”- 10:45 AM

  • Bush sends condolences to fire families

    President George W. Bush, who is visiting Columbia today, said he and First Lady Laura Bush are concerned about the families who lost loved ones in the fire at Ocean Isle Beach, N.C., this week.- 1:42 PM

  • Tears and remembrance

    As the sun set over the University of South Carolina campus Monday, candles held by students illuminated a somber scene. Six black wreaths adorned with garnet bows stood in a semi-circle, flanking a single, purple wreath with a white ribbon and an orange rose.- 11:49 AM

  • From Sorensen's remarks

    USC president Andrew Sorensen quoted a famous verse — “no man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent” — from 16th-century Anglican priest and poet John Donne:- 12:53 PM

  • Walden funeral: ‘Such a loss to the community’

    CHAGRIN FALLS, Ohio — More than 600 people crowded a suburban Cleveland church Saturday to remember one of seven college students killed in a North Carolina beach house fire last weekend, a church minister said.- 12:08 AM

  • 450 mourn girl with 'contagious smile'


    USC freshman Lauren Astrid Kristiana Mahon was "a rock star without a band," according to her friend Andy Evans.- 1:43 PM

  • ‘Half of me is gone’

    CLEMSON — Surrounded by eight friends, Meredith Yelton stood in front of hundreds of college students and read a letter to her twin sister, Emily.- 1:44 PM

  • Mourners recall young man who touched lives

    GREENVILLE — Travis Cale’s plain oak casket rested along the shore of Round Pond, a tranquil place where he, his family and his closest friends lounged, laughed and loved.- 12:08 AM

  • Close friends were popular, well-liked

    Shannon McDaniel was intimidated and scared when she transferred in her junior year to a new school, J.L. Mann Academy in Greenville County.- 10:52 AM

  • Silence in remembrance

    Dale McNair wasn’t sure how she got herself to Columbia on Tuesday, but by noon she was standing silently before USC’s makeshift memorial to the seven victims of a weekend fire.- 10:15 AM